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Symons was not trying to avoid Order—he simply did not recognize it. We can see that Mr. Symons, trained in the verbal school of Swinburne, is simply anxious to get a nice sounding phrase; and we infer that all that he found in Baudelaire was a nice sounding phrase. S. Eliot. ”61 Was Eliot, too? In any case, Eliot says—and his will be the last words here: But Baudelaire was not an aesthetic or a political Christian; his tendency to “ritual,” which Mr. S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word observed, springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity, but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian.

And in all events it is a process which neither Arnold nor Professor Babbitt could accept. But if there is a “will of God”, as Arnold, in a hasty moment, admits, then some doctrine of Grace must be admitted too; or else the “will of God” is just the same inoperative benevolence which we have all now and then received—and resented—from our fellow human beings. 48 Eliot brings “Francis Herbert Bradley” to a close with a long paragraph that at once summarizes his argument, establishes links backwards and forwards to other essays, and enriches our understanding of some fundamental concerns and principles.